Corset.



J. H. & I. TAYLOR.

CORSET.'

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 24, I915 Patented Sept. 18, 1917.

WITNESSES UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CORSET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 18, 1917.

Application filed February 24, 1915. Serial No. 10,172.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JAMEs' HOWARD TAYLOR and 120m TAYLOR, both citizens of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Corset, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to the general class of corsets for women which are worn in conjunction with brassieres or breast supporters.

In prevailing modes, the upper edges of the corsets worn by women are below the breasts and the corsets are designed to compress the waist and hips.

Obviously, in the use of this type of garment the breasts-are unsupported and it has been a common practice for the user to wear a brassiere of any" of the usual kinds, the lower or waist portion of which in its use is either outside of or else within, that is, surrounded or inclosed by the upper portion of, the corset, while in either mode of Wearing its upper or edge portion extends above the breasts and either directly and evenly across from arm pit to arm pit or in upward curvature from the center outwardly on each side to partly embrace the shoulders above the level of the arm pits and to be provided with shoulder straps extending to its upper back portion.

The object of our invention is to so combine 'a corset with a brassiere that each subserves its intended purpose, while by their union advantages, economy, durability and comfort are secured, and the entire composite garment is one that possesses many advantages which render it readily, and in many instances more easily, salable than would be the case were the two separate.

lVith the object, therefore, of making a serviceable useful and relatively inexpensive composite garment of the character recited, we have invented a combined corset and brassiere a typical and at present preferred embodiment of which is represented in the accompanying drawing and hereinaftei described, the special features of which we claim as novel being definitely specified in the claiming clauses.

In the drawing, Figure l is a view in perspective of the figure of a woman in the act of putting on a corset embodying our invention;

Figs. 2 and 3 are fragmentary, elevational views of the upper portions of the back of the corset,that in Fig. 2 being assumed to be the right hand back portion and that in .Fig. 3 the left hand back portion, to each of ed backward, outwardly and in the opposite position to that whichits counterpart occupies 1n Fig. 2, and in a position to be thrown over on the line of its stitching 12,

to the corset back and to the right of said Fig. 3. I

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary, sectional top plan assumed to be taken in a horizontal plane of the breasts.

Figs. 5 and 6 are fragmentary,;inside elevations of the component elements of our brassiere, provided with ribbons, shown untied in Fig. 5 and tied in Fig. 6 and which when tied, for instance into a bow as shown in Fig. 6, draw together the two members which constitute the brassiere proper and cause them to each assume semispherical or globular shape, so as to permit of their use to give the eflect of larger breasts than the wearer may'poss'es or to constitute them as false breasts.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts.

In the drawings; 1 designates a corset provided with the usual front steels or clasps 2 andback eyeleted steels 3, for the lacings, and with bonings 4,all of any preferred type.

5 is the right front member and 6 the left front member of the brassiere, to one ofand made in a plurality of parts as the tapes shown, which are outwardly sewedor otherwise connected and attached to the mner edges of the members of the brassiere,

and are inwardly or at their inner edges con.- nected with the upper back portions of the corset by lines of stitching 12. V

In Figs. 5 and 6,-13 and'14 designate ribbons connected with the interior surfaces of the members of the hrassiere by being sewed to them as indicated, and which are respectively adapted as to their free ends to be tied together in bow knots 15, so as to draw together, or, so to speak, circumferentially curve in the fabric of which the members of the brassiere are composed and cause said members by reason of the stiffening 9 to assume and retain a semi-spherical or outwardly expanded form.

It will now be understood that the members which compose our brassiere are connected, preferably flexibly, with the upper back portions of the corset proper, and are adapted in the putting on of the composite garment by the wearer to be brought together as to their hook and eye provided edges over the breast and chest of the wearer and hooked or connected as shown in Fig. 1.

It will be further understood that after this has been done, the corset proper, which in our garment encircles or overlaps the brassiere, is then drawn together and fastened in any usual manner, and in the construction illustrated by being hooked together as to its front edges and laced as to its back edges.

In addition to many other advantages which obviously inhere in our invention, is the additional advantage of not having the body of the wearer entirely encircled or enveloped with and by the br'assiere as well as with and by the corset, and, therefore, of not having double and unnecessary thicknesses of material entirely around the body of the wearer.

Although we do not limit ourselves to attaching each of the two members of the brassiere through the intervention of their tapes or webs to the back portion of the corset in the relative positions with respect to its back steels shown in the drawings, We prefer so to attach them, with the result that while the brassiere subserves its intended function of supporting the breasts of the wearer, it does not completely encircle her body so as, as already explained, to induce unnecessary thickness and consequent tion which in practice give satisfactory and reliable results, it is to be understood that the invention as such or broadly considered is susceptible of modification in various particulars without departing from its spirit or scope or sacrificing any of its advantages.

Having thus described our invention what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

An article of manufacture comprising the combination of a corset with a brassiere formed of two members, the front edges of which are' adapted to be secured together, an extensible fabric connecting the back edges of each member to the inner back portion of the corset, each member extending a suitable distance above and below the upper edge of the corset, whereby when the corset is in place said two members will embrace the bust, will be held in position by the close engagement of the corset therewith, andwill permit the free movement of the-upper portion of the corset ina direction away from the body of the wearer.

JAMES HOWARD TAYLOR.

IZORA TAYLOR. Witnesses:

C. D. MOVAY, M. E. BYRNE. 

